46% intend to vote Labour

Conservative voters followed at 18%, while 14% chose Liberal Democrats and 6% The Green Party. One tenth of designers, at 11%, are currently undecided on who to vote for.

The Scottish National Party (SNP) was the party of choice for 2% of readers, while the UK Independence Party (UKIP) and Welsh party Plaid Cymru gathered only 1%, and 2% said they would not be voting at all.

Conservatives ahead in opinion polls

The move aims to secure the Conservatives’ place in Government, as the party is currently ahead of Labour in public opinion polls. YouGov’s most recent figures show 44% of the public intend to vote Conservative, while 31% intend to vote Labour.

Corbyn pledges to fund arts

Political parties are yet to launch their general election manifestos, but Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn pledged last year that his leadership would see greater investment in arts and culture.

This includes reversal of the £42.8 million cuts recently made to organisations such as the Arts Councils of England and Wales and Creative Scotland, additional funding to creative education and extracurricular activities in schools, de-privatising museums, devolution of cultural budgets to local councils and a national scheme for arts scholarships.

May focuses on STEM subjects

The Conservatives have focused more on digital, technology and science sectors in recent years.

Brexit could see drop in EU creative workers

May’s proposed Brexit plan is also set to take the UK out of the free single market and introduce stricter curbs on immigration and the free movement of people, which could see the 6% of creative industry jobs currently taken up by EU workers fall, and trade between the UK and European design industries reduced.

Creative Industries Federation launch manifesto

Creative Industries Federation chief executive John Kampfner has previously warned that the Conservatives’ “focus on tech and science as the drivers of innovation risks opportunities being missed.”